Moments like these are what lifts Moképon above the average, politically correct, comedy. In most other stories it would either have Thad saying "You make me want to punch you" or punches would be scattered all over and would have no meaning to begin with.

This is just perfect. It lifts his character above a comical relief bad guy to a genuine one, while he's still not a stereotype.

I feel like I'm rambling and yet not describing this accurately, but here you go, compliment~.

At first I was like "Jesus Thad, what the hell?" and then I was like "...well, that's actually a pretty good strategy. If you take out the weak trainer then you basically take out the strong pokemon, since it'll just be sitting around dumbfounded waiting for directions. Plus, it's something we all wanted to do in the game to at least to one of the omnipresent trainers preventing forward progress toward the next gym.

@Robinson3938: "Politically correct" is a term used to belittle the idea that people should treat others with respect. People who want to maintain a status quo in which it is acceptable to demean certain groups always reframe discourse so that scorn is placed upon social change which makes their views unacceptable, rather than accepting that their behaviour and attitudes are at fault. Put simply, assholes do not wish to accept that they are assholes.

@PoppyAny yet by loading the word in your own mind you've managed to make yourself into an asshole, quite ironically, by jumping someone's shit just for using the term. . . in reference to light slapstick violence in a frigging web cartoon. Are you trying to be a walking 4kids? Put some faith in people's ability to recognize good and bad behavior on their own rather than running around trying to keep the world in a bottle. Eh, superman?

@Poppy: It's also a culturally prominent phrase with diverse meanings. Your objection is only slightly less nonsensical than if you had complained about something brightly colored being referred to as "gay" or basically any reference to "the infinite blackness of space."

Blind rejection of a phrase or word offers power to the phrase or word being rejected. Consideration of the language used is a far better policy than rushing in to yell at people who use it in casual conversation in strange context while talking about a Pokemon spoof comic.

In other news....

Dangit, Thad, now he's never gonna join you, although I guess you can't see why that's a problem yet, as he's not exactly the most obvious protagonist.

@Iarei: The fact that someone decided it was appropriate to bandy about the phrase with regards to a webcomic based on a children's cartoon is precisely why I took issue with this. I come here to read about Pokémon, not hear people bang on about how much they hate political correctness, Zionist conspiracies or nanny states.

You're attributing attitudes and actions to me which are simply unreflective of what I have said or done. I couldn't care less about 4kids, or "keeping the world in a bottle". I just don't want people banging on about this crap in a comic's comment thread, and I was just telling the person who thought it was appropriate to do so where to go.

Note that my criticism was not in response to their original comment, but their response which characterised that their previous comment was not "PC", thereby attempting to cast themselves as a victim of the phantom PC brigade.

EDIT: Also, it is hardly a case of "loading the word in [my] own mind"; the term "politically correct" is widely noted as being derogatory in its usage, whereas the explicit meaning of political correctness, via OED, is, "The avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against[.]"

*pun engine revved up*Now now, Thad, no need to be so hot-headed. If only you were more cold-blooded. This must be one heated battle to get you so fired up. I think you need to cool off before you get burned. That image of you punching Atticus was just seared into my mind.

I'm not using the term to belittle respect for others, I'm using it to describe media that simply can't do certain things because people would massively send in complaints (also see: banned Pokémon episodes), therefore leading to unrealistic bad guys, among other things. That's basically all my comment was about.

But I can tell you're going to read this comment in your own way again so you can hate it. Here's an idea, if you don't want to read people's opinions on a webcomic, maybe you should stop scrolling after you reach H0ly's author comment.

@Poppy:
Hahaha, holy crap.
Yes you are loading the phrase. You literally cherry picked a quote from Wikipedia that focuses on a loaded use of the phrase while ignoring the definition of the phrase or it's use in this instance.

Even if the use is considered archaic, that's like if someone said a painting "has very gay and vibrant colors", and you launched into a rant about how they're a bigot.

Since the 4kids analogy flew over your head, let me sum up -

4kids is infamous for censoring things on a completely arbitrary basis, like replacing guns with telephones and rice balls with sandwiches. Yes, they censored balls of rice. To keep kids from the terrors of cultural exposure, I suppose.

I'm sorry you missed the Red Sun reference, I can't help you with that.

But if you don't think you're coming off as an ignoramus here, I encourage you to take a screenshot of this entire conversation and post it somewhere so you can get external validation.